Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brikker (anonymized), a children’s toy manufacturing startup, was like a hamster on a wheel. So here’s how Brikker would use the BADIR data analysis framework to overcome all the reasons startup pivots fail. Is this not a far better, data-driven direction for a startup? Conclusion So, what does this mean for your startup?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What are the attributes of the framework?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Examples could be streamlining communication or effectively tracking customer engagement to support your customer success efforts. Zapscale Best for : Early-stage startups. Top customer success management platforms for mid-market and enterprise companies.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Example: Why: Remote teams waste time switching between disconnected tools. Example: Sarah is a support manager at a fast-growing startup. Follow Simon Sineks Golden Circle : Why: What problem are you solving, and why does it matter now? How: Whats your unique approach? What: What does the feature or product actually do?

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 23, 2025

This guide breaks down: PM salaries by level (APM to Director+) Comparisons between FAANG (now MAANG) and startups Compensation components: base, bonus, RSUs, and more Real-time data sources and salary benchmarks Let’s dive into what PMs are really earning in 2025—and how you can maximize your take-home. FAANG vs. Startups: Who Pays More?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

touches on what startups should and shouldn’t do when striving for product-market fit. Perhaps that’s why Enzo Avigo, CEO of June , reportedly recommends several “dos” and “don’ts” on LinkedIn on how startups can navigate their journey towards product-market fit. But these methods don’t work well for startups. CEO of June.so

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

For example, if a key result depends on both marketing and IT, assign two names to that key result. John Doerr’s startup companies would even write their OKRs in the bathroom for everyone to see. For example, instead of “Launch feature X,” what measurable customer or business outcomes would indicate real success?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 21, 2024

For example, if you work on a subscription product (e.g. For example, if you work at a startup that sells a digital whiteboard product, you likely have an organizational buyer (maybe someone in finance or an IT manager) and end-users (the people who use the digital whiteboard to do their work). Come join us there!

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Spotify is an example of regular SaaS ; you pay to conveniently locate and stream music. Let us look at 5 examples of vertical SaaS to help you understand what they are and how they work: 1. Slack, a company-wide communication platform aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, is the most basic example.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

When I first joined, the startup I work at had often been stuck with a backlog of products and services to create. Our startup’s sales team is incredibly talented and sells successfully – but does not necessarily sell products that have already been developed. In roadmapping meetings, everyone should be engaged in refining it.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For example, during our workshop session, when one team member mentioned the need for pricing tiers in their product concept, it triggered a deeper discussion about what would motivate users to upgrade from a free version to a paid tier.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Janice built her career in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. She also guides several venture-funded startup companies, federal government entities, and non-profit organizations. It was the hottest startup in history.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Strategies for Successful Product Expansion To overcome these challenges, Greg suggests several strategies: Creating Autonomous Teams Following the example of Apple’s Macintosh development, physically separating new product teams can foster innovation. Greg shares an example from his consulting work with Vertex, a tax software company.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s free, available to everyone, and if you can pull off a great launch, Product Hunt can change your startup’s growth trajectory. However, the little-known truth is that of the thousands of startup founders who try their hand at Product Hunt each week, very few see any impact. One name kept coming up: Leo Bosuener.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are typically brand-new and young products as well as products that are experiencing a bigger change, for example, to extend their life cycle by addressing a new market segment or by replacing some of the technologies. For example, can it be effectively marketed, sold, and serviced? Can the product be successfully offered?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Instead, they provide a product portfolio, think of Microsoft Office/365 as an example. Let’s take Microsoft as an example again. Figure 2: Applying the Strategy Stack Figure 2 is an example of how the Strategy Stack might be applied at Microsoft at the time of writing. [3] As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough.

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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

My experience buying expensive designer jeans is a perfect example of why we can’t simply ask customers how much they would pay for something. What a lot of teams—especially startup founders—do is ask their customers, “Hey, would you pay for this? Before you write this off as impossible, let’s consider a few examples.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. For example, Microsoft’s 365 is just a product extension for them.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The idea was that large companies are slower than startups, and he compared the team that built the Macintosh computer to pirates because they were working on a breakthrough technology. What’s an example of a successful innovation lab? One of my favorite examples of a successful innovation lab is at Intuit.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Tweet This Sharing one specific example, Eva says that they had been struggling with their 360 review process. Instead of working six months on a new process, we now involve the team early on and test so we can learn and iterate quickly, she explains. It was too complicated and required too many touchpoints.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

Are you a SaaS product manager in search of product differentiation examples to inspire your differentiation strategy? Some product differentiation examples to guide your approach include: Userpilot differentiates itself through its comprehensive feature suite. Let’s consider a few examples: 1.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 13, 2025

The one thing startup accelerators don’t ensure is success of your startup. DropBox, AirBnB and Quora – all these companies went through a startup accelerator program. But applying for an accelerator program is a major decision for any startup; and there are some distinct pros and cons. 100-120K of funding.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Looking for SaaS pricing examples to get inspiration for your own strategy? For example, Basecamp Business is available at $99/month flat, with features like 500GB of storage space and unlimited projects available to all customers, regardless of their personal needs. Basecamp’s SaaS pricing example. Userpilot pricing example.

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

A few more examples are Fab, Klout, AppSumo, GitHub, Basecamp and Opera, among others. To my mind, a tech startup should try to avoid outsourcing the first version of their product. There are so many important things to know and learn, and in the earliest stages of a startup, technology should not be the variable.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For example, to test if the need is compelling enough you might carry out the user interviews and capture the answers in the form of notes or video footage. For example, if the goal is to “generate £200k of revenue in the next 12 months,” you might choose “make £50k in the next three months” as the outcome on the tree.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

She’s spent over a decade mastering the complex domains of data privacy and analytics and amassed an impressive track record spanning agile startups as well as tech giants including Microsoft and Salesforce. I worked at the startup Clio, a health benefits company. For example, privacy matters to all of us at Skyflow.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

Some aspect of the above story is often seen playing out within many companies and startups alike everywhere. As the Lean Startup methodology suggests, build-measure-learn. For example, take the humble shopping cart placed at the entrance of grocery stores. It may even resonate with some of us.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

She’s coached hundreds of companies from startups to Fortune 50 and loves seeing people and teams transform when they understand how to build products that customers love.   For example, often the product team doesn’t have access to customer data, and that lack of resources is stopping the team from being a great product team.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 8, 2019

He’s worked with startups and some of the largest organizations in the world and has valuable experience to share with us. For example, sales can’t make promises without talking to developers. For example, it’s very possible to give a broad overview of what you’ll deliver in six months.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 7, 2021

We need an OKR expert to learn more about this, and joining us is the woman who wrote the bestselling book, Radical Focus , that tackles the use of OKRs and startup culture with an eye to getting the right things done. and many others, as well as founding three startups, and the online design magazine Boxes and Arrows.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy. Another example is YouTube, which is available in three variants—standard, premium, and kids.

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Product Talk

JULY 9, 2025

I experienced this when I became a startup CEO. For example, we’re interviewing customers. And how do we make sure that they keep that to expedite many good decisions down the road? Teresa Torres: I think this is a really easy one to underestimate as a leader. When do you want to be involved? We’re choosing an opportunity.

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Piyanka Jain

MARCH 12, 2025

Examples: Automating repetitive data entry tasks to free up humantime. How to Shift from Experimental AI to Real BusinessImpact The answer is pragmatic AI a no-nonsense approach focused on quick wins and long-term strategy. Solve Small, Real ProblemsFirst Dont try to AI your entire business overnight.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2020

When you first start as a product manager at a startup, the routine can be jarring and exhausting. An example is having a goal for each meeting and conversation you encounter as well as having a set routine that you can go through before each. The repetition and the structure provides comfort for me.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you work at an early-stage startup and you don’t have any customers yet, then you need to talk to prospects. Learn more about how continuous discovery works in early-stage startups here. ). How Continuous Discovery Works (And Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups. If you work on software that your internal colleagues use (e.g.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Creating a new startup is a different challenge. Most of the examples I see are not useful. 19:43] Can you take us through an example of an organization that went through digital transformation? Creating a new startup is a different challenge. Most of the examples I see are not useful. Is it actually useful though?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Later I founded a startup and then worked in business development at Microsoft. The startup I founded in 1999 with my brother was a good example. Later I founded a startup and then worked in business development at Microsoft. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:59]

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